“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book takes the reader… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
“Not today! No, never again would she sit by the window, her back turned so she would not see him walk down the flagstone path with Dr Danzer, the limp volume of her favourite Bach spread open to the first page of the text, the black notes swarming before her eyes, her fingers arching in elaborate dumb-show as they practised… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share
“Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
